Well, not only them, but SMIC will probably eventually catch up to TSMC, and SMEE or SiCarrier to ASML. They're some 10 years behind the West and Taiwan still, but catching up at a ~ 2x speed.

I fully expect China to eventually flood the market with cheap high-end electronics in the 2030s as it did with solar panels this decade.

Steam Replay 2025 is now live. Here's mine.

Finished games: Cookie Clicker; Friendship with Benefits; ONE PIECE Bounty Rush; Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them; LEGO Bricktales; Gigapocalypse; Once a Porn a Time; Once a Porn a Time 2; Feed All Monsters; Horny Warp: Hentai Fantasy; Lost in Play; Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix; Horny Sekai; Horny Girls Hentai; Clicker Heroes; Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered; LEGO Builder's Journey; Cat Quest III; Evil Pumpkin: The Lost Halloween;  LIMBO; Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition; Muv-Luv; Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride; Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan; Grim Legends 3: The Dark City; HuniePop; Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl; LEGO Harry Potter Collection; Paradise Lust.

Games started for the first time: MEGA MAN X DiVE Offline; It's Only Money; MachiaVillain; Dokimon: Quest; Alice in Wonderland - a jigsaw puzzle tale; Idling to Rule the Gods; Paleo Pines; Infinity Nikki; The Smurfs 2 - The Prisoner of the Green Stone; MythBusters: The Game - Crazy Experiments Simulator; Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid; Stargate: Timekeepers; Spells & Secrets; Digimon World: Next Order; Mafia: Definitive Edition; Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time; Hello Neighbor; A Monster's Expedition; Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway; Dawn of the Monsters; Dispatch; Muv-Luv Alternative; Tower Princess; Dragon's Lair; Koi-Koi Japan [Hanafuda playing cards]; Panty Party.

Old games I still play: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms; ANOTHER EDEN; The Elder Scrolls Online; Warframe; Cult of the Lamb; Galactic Civilizations IV; Spandex Force: Champion Rising; Ghost Master: Resurrection; Subverse; Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood; Chess Ultra; Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition; Eiyu*Senki Gold – A New Conquest.

Final sale has started on some soon to be delisted games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1910300/JoJo_Siwa_Worldwide_Party/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1543830/The_Addams_Family_Mansion_Mayhem/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1434330/Blaze_and_the_Monster_Machines_Axle_City_Racers/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/523210/A_Normal_Lost_Phone/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/689910/Another_Lost_Phone_Lauras_Story/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1035050/AltFrequencies/

Here's my steam replay: 

My Steam replay isn't near as impressive as you guys.

NVIDIA rumored to cut GeForce RTX 50 supply in H1 2026, RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti to be affected first

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-rumored-to-cut-geforce-rtx-50-supply-in-h1-2026-rtx-5070-ti-and-5060-ti-to-be-affected-first

Ryzen 7 9850X3D Listed For $553 — Upcoming 8-Core Zen 5 X3D Chip Is Now Appearing On Retailers

https://wccftech.com/ryzen-7-9850x3d-listed-for-553/

Firefox will evolve into a “modern AI browser,” says Mozilla’s new CEO, with AI features kept optional

https://videocardz.com/newz/firefox-will-evolve-into-a-modern-ai-browser-says-mozillas-new-ceo-with-ai-features-kept-optional

Unboxing shows Sapphire RX 9070 XT Phantom Link model with GC-HPWR adapter

https://videocardz.com/newz/unboxing-shows-sapphire-rx-9070-xt-phantom-link-model-with-gc-hpwr-adapter

AMD launches Radeon RX 9060 XT Low Power graphics card with 16GB memory

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-lanches-radeon-rx-9060-xt-low-power-graphics-card-with-16gb-memory

HDMI LA to demo Ultra96 HDMI 2.2 cable prototypes and 500 Hz gaming display at CES 2026

https://videocardz.com/newz/hdmi-la-to-demo-ultra96-hdmi-2-2-cable-prototypes-and-500-hz-gaming-display-at-ces-2026

Hope they fix that shat

NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU Gets Big Memory Upgrade, Now Packs 72 GB For AI & Pro Workloads, 50% More VRAM Capacity

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rtx-pro-5000-blackwell-gpu-big-memory-upgrade-packs-72-gb/

Intel Nova Lake Desktop CPUs With Big Cache ‘bLLC” To Feature Four Flavors In 52, 42, 28, 24 Cores, 288 MB “Core Ultra 9” & 144 MB “Core Ultra 7”

https://wccftech.com/intel-nova-lake-desktop-cpus-big-cache-bllc-52-42-28-24-core-288-mb-144-mb/

Intel Reportedly Draws Interest From AMD and NVIDIA in Its 14A Process for Server Offerings, as External Customers Start to Line Up

https://wccftech.com/intel-is-now-reported-to-have-secured-amd-and-nvidia-as-14a-customers/

Lenovo reportedly plans a SteamOS Legion Go Gen 2 for CES 2026, powered by Ryzen Z2 Extreme

https://videocardz.com/newz/lenovo-reportedly-plans-a-steamos-legion-go-gen-2-for-ces-2026-powered-by-ryzen-z2-extreme

Microsoft marks 10 years of DirectX 12

https://videocardz.com/newz/microsoft-marks-10-years-of-directx-12

G.SKILL releases short statement on DRAM price increase: blame AI

https://videocardz.com/newz/g-skill-releases-short-statement-on-dram-price-increase-blame-ai

Windows Server 2025 adds native NVMe storage support as Microsoft touts “Storage Revolution”

https://videocardz.com/newz/windows-server-2025-adds-native-nvme-storage-support-as-microsoft-touts-storage-revolution

Three words: Steam Winter Sale.

You get three free stickers by going through your Discovery Queue. I don't think there's anything else free this time either.

Also, Epic is offering Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel for free. Seems like it's daily free offerings again, so remember to hurry if you wish to get the free stuff. At least I probably won't be posting about it every (if any) time.

AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details

https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd-officially-confirms-fresh-next-gen-zen-6-cpu-details/

Samsung under pressure after alleged DRAM and NAND bribery claims in Taiwan

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-under-pressure-after-alleged-dram-and-nand-bribery-claims-in-taiwan

Mozilla confirms Firefox AI features will have a “kill switch”, hoping to regain users trust

https://videocardz.com/newz/mozilla-confirms-firefox-ai-features-will-have-a-kill-switch-hoping-to-regain-users-trust

LG says Copilot can be deleted on webOS TVs after backlash

https://videocardz.com/newz/lg-says-copilot-can-be-deleted-on-webos-tvs-after-backlash

You can now play Grand Theft: Auto Vice City in a web browser

https://videocardz.com/newz/you-can-now-play-grand-theft-auto-vice-city-in-a-web-browser

Here’s how to add AMD’s new Machine Learning powered Frame Gen “FSR Redstone” to (almost) any game using Optiscaler

https://wccftech.com/heres-how-to-add-amd-fsr-redstone-frame-gen-to-almost-any-game-using-optiscaler/

AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-legacy-ryzen-7-5800x3d-chips-now-sell-for-up-to-usd800-more-than-a-new-9800x3d-am4-chip-costs-twice-as-much-as-msrp-as-enthusiasts-flock-to-old-ddr4-memory

Significant 8 nm Order at Samsung Foundry Linked to Futuristic Intel 900-series Chipset

https://www.techpowerup.com/344229/significant-8-nm-order-at-samsung-foundry-linked-to-futuristic-intel-900-series-chipset

I wonder if 12 cores per CCU will be enough, Nova Lake looks insane (on paper, at least).

12-core/24 thread chiplets should mean 24-core/48 thread parts on the mainstream socket, likely in response to Intels ballooning core counts with Core Ultra which currently stands at 24 cores for the i9 285... Which looks better than AMD's 16-core parts currently on paper.
Competition is great with us core-count whores... But we will need faster and more expensive RAM to keep that beast fed.

FP16 support is bizarre... If it's included in the floating point unit on each core, rather than in the SIMD units or a dedicated NPU block or leveraging every I/O die inclusion of RDNA CU's... Double bizarre if that includes packed math support for A.I workloads.